The Three Musketeers

A fresh translation to tie-in to the brand new adaptation on BBC One. The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good. The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his accomplice, the magnetic Milady de Winter, propel the devoted friends across seas and battlefields from masked balls to a remote convent, in order to defend the honour of the Queen and the life of Constance Bonacieux, d'Artagnan's true love. Dashing, knockabout, romantic, violent, chilling and tragic, this buoyant new translation of The Three Musketeers brings Dumas' masterpiece to joyful life. About the Author Former contributing editor to Granta Magazine and Books, Will Hobson is a writer and translator from French and German. His translations include Marilyn's Last Sessions by Michel Schneider (Canongate), about Marilyn Monroe and her last analyst, and Being Arab by Samir Kassir (Verso), which won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award 2007.